The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 22:00 EDT

The spirit of innovation is deeply ingrained in Canada, and Google is helping Canadians innovate in ways both big and small, from mapping accessible spaces so the disabled community can explore with confidence, to unlocking billions in domestic tourism revenue. Thousands of Canadian companies are innovating with Google AI. Innovation is Canada's story. Let's tell it together. Find out more at g.co slash Canadian Innovation. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Hurland.

One of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history is hammering Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa made landfall today as a category five storm. It's now downgraded to a category four, but there are widespread power outages and flooded roads. Chris Reyes reports. Even before Hurricane Melissa made landfall, fall on Jamaica's southwestern coast, the images were terrifying, and so were the warnings. Evan Thompson is with a meteorological service of Jamaica. It will cause catastrophic damage, life-threatening damage. There is very little that can stop

our category five hurricane. Hurricane Melissa is the strongest storm to hit the island since record-keeping began. There are reports of widespread power and internet outages, as well as storm surges, flooding roads and bridges. Nessa 4 McGendi, with a Red Cross in the Caribbean, says the humanitarian threat is severe. He says essential services could be cut off for days, if not weeks. Roves will be tested. Flood water will rise. Isolation will become a harsh reality for many. Hurricane Melissa is expected to weaken slightly as it heads north, where Cuba is bracing for a hit.

Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. Alberta Elementary and high schools will be back in session tomorrow. after the provincial government passed back to work legislation, ending a teacher strike. Jason Chilling is president of the Alberta Teachers Association. He says teachers will comply with the order. Well, the government may have ended the strike. They have not ended the crisis in Alberta's classrooms. Our schools will reopen tomorrow, but the same overcrowded classrooms,

the same lack of supports, the same underfunding will still be waiting for teachers and students. Nothing in Bill 2 changes that reality. Schilling says every worker in Alberta should be concerned about the province's use of the notwithstanding clause to end the strike. The legislation imposes the contract that nearly 90% of teachers rejected. The Conservative Party is hoping all parties come together to back its bill that tackles intimate partner violence. Bill C-225 would create specific offenses under the criminal. code for this kind of violence. Conservative MP Frank Caputo drafted the bill. When you assault an intimate partner, it's not just assault. It's assaulting somebody

oftentimes who is in an emotional relationship, a physical relationship, a relationship of financial dependence. That's what distinguishes it from simple assault. And that's why we should be calling it criminal harassment of an intimate partner. The bill would also treat the murder of a current or former intimate partner as first-degree murder. Caputo says the bill is nonpartisan, and he hopes it can be passed quickly. Amazon is laying off thousands of people. The company says corporate jobs are being cut, so it can spend more on artificial intelligence. As Nisha Patel reports, Amazon is investing tens of billions in AI. Amazon is cutting 14,000 jobs in its corporate division out of about

350,000 roles. Most workers will be given 90 days to look for a new position, internally. Ian Lee is a management professor at Carlton University. They are constantly figuring out which part of the company is growing and needs more resources. And so I think this is a strategic response. The company says it needs a leaner, more nimble organization in order to take advantage of developments in artificial intelligence, calling it the most transformative technology since the internet. And so AI is going to be very disruptive, but it's just not going to be uniform across the board and affect everybody equally. Some will lose their jobs.

Amazon has been racing to invest in AI as it faces increased competition. The company had forecast $100 billion in capital spending this year. Nisha Pettel, CBC News, Toronto. It's game four tonight of the World Series, and the Toronto Blue Jays are playing the L.A. Dodgers. Right now, the Jays are ahead to one at the top of the seventh inning. And that is your world this hour. News. I'm Neil Hurland.